Editorial Policy

by
spanna
—
August 07, 2012

EngageMedia welcomes contributions from a variety of styles and
genres, whether it's documentary, fiction, experimental or as yet
un-categorisable.

Our key focus is to present video that promotes
social change. We want to promote work that challenges corporate
dominance and government arrogance, that exposes the people and
mechanisms behind environmental destruction or human rights abuses. We
want to build media that questions how the world works.

We are looking to
create a more thoughtful space for works that have significant impact
on viewers but we also want the space to be diverse and open to people
with many different approaches.

Submission Guidelines

We accept work that is:

well researched

well produced and edited

focusses on the South East Asia and Pacific regions

aids in the development of social movements

is innovative, engaging or entertaining

constructive, critical of the status quo or highlights key issues

We don't accept:

work that promotes sexism, racism or homophobia or discrimates against dis-empowered members of the community.

advertising or advertorial

Open Content

EngageMedia operates on the principles of open content.
We want visitors to this site to be able to freely copy and
redistribute the works here as long as it is for non-profit purposes.
Work should preferably be share-alike which means "I share if you share". Apart
from the ethics of such a policy, we believe it is practically
impossible to stop people reproducing your work once it is in digital
form. This is also a positive, however, as people will help you
distribute your work around the globe if they enjoy it.

This
site cannot directly generate revenue for producers, although we would
like to implement a donations based micro-payment system a bit further
down the line, so other Members may contribute financially, on a
voluntary basis, to future work by the Producers whose videos they
enjoy or want to see more of. Indirectly EngageMedia and Internet
distribution in general may expose filmmakers to other revenue streams
such as festivals, compilations and broadcast.

EngageMedia uses the Creative Commons
licenses as they are currently the most developed. When you publish
your work you will be asked to specify a creative commons licence.

What happens to your work once you have submitted it?

Once
you upload your work to the site you'll be sent an email telling you
the server has received it. The site moderators will then view the
video and publish or reject it. You'll receive an email about this too.
If you continue publishing solid content we'll invite you to become a
site moderators and help review and approve other peoples content too.